"To give thanks in solitude is enough.Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go.Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

- Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885 : French novelist and poet

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Our location for inspiration this week is of course Paris.

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."- Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784 : French philosopher and writer

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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo is one of France's greatest writers and poets, best known for writing Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Hugo was born in France in 1802 but lived in exile in Brussels and Guernsey from 1851 to 1870, during which time he wrote Les Misérables. He returned to France the hero and re-entered politics working for social and political change.